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Finance Featured

Can Bessent Cap the Long Bond Without the Fed?

The Treasury doubled its long-bond buybacks to stop a selloff — and the rally lasted 48 hours. What the failed intervention reveals about who actually controls the long end, and what Warsh's Jackson Hole debut now has to decide.

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Why Costco Is Walking Into the Market Health Insurers Are Fleeing

UnitedHealth, Humana, and Aetna are cutting Medicare Advantage by the hundreds of counties. Costco just entered the $500 billion market — with a deal structured so the retailer can't lose.

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AI Featured

Marvell Just Paid Google to Buy Its Chips

Marvell handed Google warrants on $12.2 billion of its own stock as a reward for chip orders — the second time in a year an AI supplier has paid its customer in equity. The math behind the new price of hyperscaler business.

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Three Industries Are Paying for the Most Expensive Midterms in History

The all-time record for corporate election spending fell in March — seven months before a single midterm vote. The money isn't coming from oil, pharma, or banks: crypto, AI, and sportsbooks are buying the regulatory map.

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Markets Featured

Who Sells Poland When It Stops Being Emerging?

S&P Dow Jones just handed Poland the decade's first promotion out of emerging markets. The reward: losing its biggest required buyers. Inside the graduation trade — the flows timeline, the MSCI catalyst, and the names that benefit.

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Defence Featured

Can Raytheon Build 1,000 Tomahawks a Year?

Raytheon builds roughly 60 Tomahawks a year. A $22.9 billion, seven-year Pentagon contract just ordered more than 1,000 — and quietly rewrote the business model of the American munitions industry. Who gets paid for the buildout.

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Why Every Delivery App Suddenly Wants Its Own Air Force

Amazon is scaling drone delivery sixfold to nearly 500 cities, Walmart and Wing are adding 150 stores, and DoorDash just won its own FAA air-carrier certificate. The land grab for America's low-altitude airspace has started — and the deadline is a rule the FAA hasn't published yet.

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Geopolitics Featured

China Is Annexing the South China Sea With Paperwork

A nature reserve, a stack of ecological reports, and an empty ocean: while America's Iran war pulls the last carrier from the Pacific, China is annexing Scarborough Shoal with administrative law — and markets price the world's busiest trade artery at zero risk.

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Finance Featured

The Hackers Picking Off Private Equity One Phone Call at a Time

Hackers just walked out of a $938 billion asset manager with a phone call and a fake login page. The targeting shift behind the Apollo breach reprices operational risk for private equity — and hands the mandate to a short list of identity-security names.

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Investing Featured

$LUNR: Intuitive Machines Hit a $1.8B Backlog. Now the Hard Math Starts.

Intuitive Machines quadrupled Q2 revenue to $206M and landed a $600M satellite deal. With 27% of the float short and $481M in debt, the bull case depends on math the stream hasn't done.

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Energy Featured

Hoover Dam Is Five Feet From Losing Most of Its Power

Lake Mead just broke its 1930s-era record low and sits five feet above the elevation where Hoover Dam loses 12 of its 17 turbines. Upstream, Glen Canyon Dam may stop generating entirely within months. The Southwest's cheapest electricity is vanishing — here's who pays, and who collects.

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Markets Featured

India Is Letting the Rupee Go

The RBI has sold $53 billion and let reserves fall nearly $40 billion from their peak to hold the rupee's line against a 50% US tariff wall. The evidence says it just stopped — and that decision reprices Indian assets more than any tariff headline.

Macro Featured

Where Did the Entry-Level Job Go?

Recent-grad unemployment is 5.7% and underemployment just hit its worst level since 2020. Everyone blames AI. The Fed's own data says the real culprit is something else — and which story is right decides whether rate cuts can fix it.

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Investing Featured

$MRNA: Moderna Just Made History Twice. Now the Market Has to Decide What It's Worth.

In two weeks, Moderna got the first mRNA flu vaccine approved in U.S. history and won the first successful Phase 3 for a personalized cancer vaccine. The stock moved 177% in a day. Here's what it's worth.

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Finance Featured

The Best Bonds of 2026 Bet That Inflation Never Left

The Global Agg has lost money this year. Broad EM local debt returned 1.5%. One $886 billion corner of the bond market returned 11.3% — by assuming inflation would stay. How the trade worked, and where the money is rotating next.

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Markets Featured

Why Corn Is Up 23% While Everyone Watches Oil

USDA just made a bigger-than-expected cut to the US corn yield, this week's crop tour is confirming a Corn Belt split between drought and flood, and exports are running 82% above last year. The quietest repricing of 2026 is in the dirt, not the strait.

Markets Featured

American Drug Prices Just Broke a 63-Year Record

Prescription drug prices are falling at the fastest annual rate since 1963 — seven straight months of deflation in a category that almost never deflates. Washington is fighting over the credit. The real question is who absorbs the cut.

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Markets Featured

Top 10 Stocks to Watch — Wednesday, August 19

Moderna surges 80%+ on FDA approval, Keysight beats by 24%, and the Iran blockade reshapes the energy and defense setup. Here are the 10 names worth watching today — with watch levels, trigger setups, and the afternoon FOMC catalyst mapped out.

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$AMLX: Amylyx Just Won Its Phase 3. Now the Offering Changes the Math.

A 64% single-day surge on historic Phase 3 data. Then a $350 million equity raise announced the same evening. Here is what the dilution math, balance-sheet clock, and NDA calendar actually mean for the distribution of outcomes from here.

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Infrastructure Featured

How a Lake 85 Feet Above the Sea Is Repricing Global Trade

With Hormuz closed, the Panama Canal was the world's fallback — until El Niño began draining Gatun Lake. Transit slots now auction for $2.5 million, and the bill is landing on trans-Pacific freight just as holiday shipping season begins.

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Space Economy Featured

Can China Land a Rocket Before Its Starlink Window Closes?

Tonight a Chinese startup attempts the landing only three American companies have ever pulled off — with an $11 billion IPO priced off the outcome and China's twin answers to Starlink already 100-plus satellites behind schedule.

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Can the World's Biggest Stablecoin Stay in America?

Treasury just published the rule that decides who may issue and sell digital dollars in the US. The clock now runs to July 2028 — when offering an unlicensed stablecoin to Americans becomes a federal crime. Tether's $183 billion has 23 months to choose.

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Markets Featured

$XOS: The Micro-Cap That Just Won Its First Air Force Contract — and the Float Math Behind the 126% Pop

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Top 10 Stocks to Watch — Tuesday, August 18

Iran's ceasefire is dead, crude is climbing, and Home Depot just delivered the market's first positive earnings surprise of retail season. Here are ten names with identifiable catalysts for today's session.

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Markets Featured

10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: Retail's Verdict on the Consumer Ahead of Jackson Hole — August 17–21, 2026

Four retail giants report, Reddit joins the S&P 500, and Wednesday's FOMC minutes reveal how close the Fed came to hiking — the 10 stocks that matter this week, with the catalyst, thesis, and risk for each.